Frases de Sholem Asch

Sholem Asch fue un novelista y dramaturgo estadounidense de origen polaco.

Gran parte de sus escritos tienen que ver con la experiencia de los judíos en los poblados de la Europa Oriental o como inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos. Entre sus trabajos se encuentran la obra teatral Got fun Nekomeh de 1907 y las novelas Motke Ganev de 1916, Onkl Mozes de 1918 y Khaym Lederers Tsurikkumen de 1927.

En posteriores obras un tanto más polémicas, exploró el legado común del Judaísmo y el Cristianismo. Tuvo una sobresaliente carrera por su productividad y efectos, siendo uno de los escritores más conocidos de la literatura yídica moderna. Wikipedia

✵ 1. noviembre 1880 – 10. julio 1957

Sholem Asch: Frases en inglés

“Suffering, my son, is the fount of love. Suffering is the grace, the great grace, which our Father in heaven pours down upon us. For suffering gives men submissive hearts. He that does not suffer thinks that he stands upon a mighty rock which he himself has raised. He does not see his brother; he sees only himself. He believes in no one; he believes only in his own strength. His heart becomes a swamp which swarms with reptiles: pride, obstinacy, and self-love. And when his footstool is rolled away from under him, he sinks, together with all the reptiles, into the depths of hell. But he to whom God has granted suffering shall find his pains like ropes which bind him to his Father in heaven. His heart is awake to feel the pains of his brother in need. He sends afflictions upon you and makes you small on earth that you may be great in heaven.”

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Sholem Asch

The Nazarene, 1939, p. 512.